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• DRAFT RELEASE NOTES — Go 1.26
• Coding Challenge #100 - BitTorrent Client
• The Evolution of Caching Libraries in Go

This episode was recorded in front of a live studio audience, during a GoSF meetup.

• Go 1.25.3 and 1.24.9 released
• 🪲 Blog: How we found a bug in Go's arm64 compiler by Thea Heinen
• zsh support progress for sh
• 🇺🇸 Go meetup & live episode @ San Francisco
• 🌩️ Lightning round
  • qjs, a CGO-Free, modern, secure JavaScript runtime for Go applications
  • 📺 Kaizen, watch anime from the terminal

• Security releases
  • 🍪 Go 1.25.2 and 1.24.8 with 10 security fixes
  • 🌐 golang.org/x/net v0.45.0 with 2 security fixes
• Meetups @ Conferences
  • 🇺🇸 San Fransisco, CA, USA — Oct 23 @ Forge
  • 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Israel — Dec 10 @ Cato Networks
  • 🇺🇸 GoWest @ Lehi, Utah USA — Oct 24
• 🧦 New swag in the Cup o' Go store!
• Proposals
  • 👷🏿‍♀️ Accepted: go fix to apply fixes from modernizers and gofix analyzers
  • On hold: Add experimental HTTP/3 support
• 👖 gofumpt: Should clothing naked returns be put behind `-extra`?

• Conference videos
  • 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK
  • FyneConf
• Proposals
  • 💧 Accepted: add new goroutine leak profile as a GOEXPERIMENT
    • Full discussion of this feature in Episode 127
  • 🪿 Added to minutes: add GOOS=noos bare metal support
  • 🫣 Added to minutes: Add bytes.Buffer.Peek
  • 👍 Added to minutes: Add must.Do
• Blog posts
  • ✈️ Go blog: Flight Recorder in Go 1.25 by Carlos Amedee and Michael Knyszek
  • 🫖 We tried Go's experimental Green Tea garbage collector and it didn't help performance by Zach Musgrave
• do v2.0.0 released, dependency injection toolkit for Go
• 🌩️ Lightning Round
  • Watermill 1.5 Released
  • Sweet Fyne apps
    • supersonic
    • Bounce presentation
  • modgen, static generator for Go module vanity URLs

• Meetups and Conferences
  • 🇺🇸 Go Meetup in San Francisco, Oct 23 @ Forge
  • 🇺🇸 GoWest, Oct 24 @ Lehi, Utah USA
  • 🇳🇬 GopherCon Africa, Oct 24 & 25 @ Lagos, Nigeria
  • 🇷🇺 LetsGoConf followup post on Telegram
• Proposals
  • ⚠️ Accepted: errors.AsType (As with type parameters)
  • 💧 runtime/pprof,runtime: new goroutine leak profile
  • New: direct reference to embedded fields in struct literals
• 🌩️ Lighting Round
  • golangci-lint v2.5.0 released
  • Blog: Building Conway's Game of Life in Go with raylib-go by Tim Little
  • Blog: vacuum gets a facelift by quobix

Thanks Gabriel Augendre for guest co-hosting this episode!

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• 🔬 A new experimental Go API for JSON
• 🧾 2025 Go Developer Survey
• 🥸 Test state, not interactions by Redowan
• 😴 Go team quiet week Sep 22–Sep 26
• ⛓️‍💥 The Day the Linter Broke My Code

Interview with Matt Boyle

• Find Matt on X
• Ona
• ByteSizeGo
• Functional options for friendly APIs

• Go 1.25.1 and Go 1.24.7 are released
• 🇩🇪 GopherCon Europe: Berlin 2025 videos online
• ⏱️ Blog: Testing Time (and other asynchronicities) by Damien Neil
  • Video: Testing Time (and other asynchronous code)
• 👖 gofumpt v0.9.0 released
  • Video: Go's Naked Returns: Be afraid!
• 🗳️ Blog: Building Bulletproof Leader Election in Kubernetes Operators: A Deep Dive by Ishai Shor
• Proposals
  • Accepted: deprecate x/net/context package
  • 👈 Likely accept: spec: expression to create pointer to simple types
• Jonathan is available for fractional Gopher work!
• Lightning Round
  • github.com/jackc/pgx/v5 v5.7.6 released
  • 👕 Gopher themed Hawaiian shirt designs
  • New "official" fork of Go YAML library

This episode is sponsored by Boldly Go! Need fractional Gophering work? Visit boldlygo.tech.

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• GopherCon 2026 location poll
• GopherCon India
• GOMAXPROCS
• Course: "Introducing Command Line Applications in Go"
• SQLite benchmarks